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 Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2009 10:56 am
So the pregnancy belt helps you? Maybe I'll give that a try. Pelvic bone pain is my greatest discomfort right now, when I get up, when I walk, when I turn over in bed, and sometimes it's so bad I'm limping. I have it more and earlier with this pregnancy than my other 2.
My other complaint is how I'm not even 6 months yet but I look ready to deliver. I'm pretty sure I carried like this (watermelon up front, and look several months ahead of what I am) with my other two too, but I often wonder if there's room to grow! Everybody brings it up ("Are you worried that you're so big already?") and it makes me self-conscious, but I guess if I weigh both extremes, I'd rather look more pregnant earlier than not show hardly at all until late, because then people wouldn't know for sure I'm pregnant!
Luna, do you know which type of Tubal you're going to have? I researched it and all the different kinds and what they entail and their success rates and rates of reversal, so I'm curious! My OB said she usually does the Monopolar Coagulation (where they use electricity to burn the tubes and it winds up in 2 pieces), but after a c-section she can't do that because of all the swelling, so she then does the Pomeroy technique where they create a loop in the tubing, suture it off, and it disconnects and separates.
I wanted to do the plastic clips, which have the highest pregnancy success rate after reversal, and that's what my best friend had done, but it looks like for now I won't be having any of them done, because I'm not 100% sure I won't change my mind later.
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:15 am
I can definitely relate to your pain Mystic. It so bad sometimes that even though I'm only 6 1/2 months, I wish I could give birth already. That's just the pain talking however since I know the risks the baby would be put into by being born a preemie. It seems like I'm definitely going to have to look into the idea of a maternity belt.
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 2:34 pm
It seems to help, although I have to make sure I take my Zantac when I use it otherwise the heartburn is bad. I will say I'm also working on better posture sitting and standing too, if I try to cross my legs, it makes it much worse.
Mystic, wow, what a bunch of rude people. I like to use "hormones" as an excuse to get snippy with comments like that. Haha, I love the beet red embarassment they get when I zip back any comments like that!
As for carrying, well, everything I've heard that's the territory with the more kiddos you have. I feel huge all ready, but at the same time, I don't really know if I can compare it right since I'm in the FAT mindframe as it is, lol.
I have no idea what tubal I'm going to get. I don't care really about reversal rates, but I do know I do not want anything left inside me like clips. Just makes me nervous although I know it's safe. For me, I can never say I'm 100% sure, but I just can't go through pregnancy again even if whatifs. Although it kinda saddens me in a way, if I want more, adoption has ALWAYS been a real possibility, but this makes it harder and much more distant than I would originally have liked.
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Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 4:23 pm
I read up on pelvic bone pain/pubic bone pain yesterday because after I talked Friday about various pelvic bones hurting, then my pubic bone started to hurt really bad when I walked ever since then, just like it did after my first was born. I read that sometimes painkillers, ice packs, accupuncture, or chiropractic can help, as well as sleeping with a pillow between your legs, under your tummy, and standing/walking with equal weight distributed on both legs and legs close together. Oh, and pregnancy belt, which I won't get to look into for another 2 weeks when we go out of town for errands. I read it can be so bad that crutches or wheelchair can be needed, and that's about how I felt this weekend trying to walk with stabbing pains right there! I agree Luna I don't want to cross my legs anymore while sitting because it makes it worse!
One thing that does make me feel better about this though is that it's Relaxin that's causing my joints to loosen and hurt, and Relaxin helps keep the uterine muscles relaxed so it's not contracting all the time while the baby grows, and I have noticed that although I get braxton-hicks now, and sometimes kind of painfully, it's not nearly as early, often, or strong as it was in my second pregnancy, and I worry that all the strong braxton-hicks contributed to Amber being in distress and wanting out early. So I think I'd rather have the pubic bone pain when I walk than put the baby at risk of being in the NICU a month like Amber was!
As for changing my mind about having my tubes tied, the one thing that's got me going 'what if' is if something happened to one of my girls in the next few years, I'd want that option. Although during the nausea phase of pregnancy I was SURE sure I couldn't do this again!
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Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:59 am
Good ole Relaxin. stressed
So, found out I'm having yet another boy. Makes four for dh. We're more amused by it all, but now we have the dilemma of picking another name. All the names I pick out from many years ago end up being popular that year! But at the same time, I don't want YOOneek names or at least, save it for the middle name.
I'm still going through my mental processes involving the tubal. I don't want to use whatifs (just for me) because there's the other whatifs what if I die, etc. I know dh says if we were to lose a child, he wouldn't want to make it feel like we were trying to replace them. I think it's a really hard thing to know unless you're in that situation and god willing, I hope to never have to know.
I'm trying to look up for stretches to see if those help. I know I'd never try a chiropractor or accupuncture, especially while pregnant, so hoping there's at least something. I've been trying to do the Wii Fit, that's not been going so well, especially yoga wise. rofl
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Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:22 pm
OMG I can just imagine the Wii Fit right now! When we first got ours, my first thought was "What if I were pregnant and I was gaining all this weight instead of losing?" I suppose I could put in as my goal that I want to gain such and such amount of weight in so and so many months. But I KNOW I couldn't handle the yoga balance or even the leg exercises right now! My balance is all over the place! I haven't done Wii Fit since before my nausea stage because I didn't want to get an aversion to playing it, like I did with playing Harvest Moon while feeling sick in my last pregnancy!
I went to the chiropractor today for the first time in 2 years, and it's because I had the most horrible throbbing painful headache and neck pain yesterday, and I can't take Advil, and Tylenol doesn't help it!
I'm in the kind of the same (but opposite) position as you Luna in having my third girl and not having a name picked out right away like I did with Jade and Amber! I was thinking Ruby for a while, to go with the trend, but I'm less and less sure about it, and every other name I "like" I didn't have strong feelings about until last week I scoured several different alphabet-letters of a 27,000 baby names site, wrote down those I liked, asked dh about it, narrowed it down more, and then let it sit. ONE name from that list kept going through my head over and over the next 2 days, and every time I thought about it, the more I liked it! So I'm finally as set on the name Lacey as I was about my other girls'!
I agree with your dh (and mine) about the unappealing prospect of thinking you're replacing a child, but I don't think of it that way at all, mostly because I like the idea of having four different, unique people be my children, but 4 at once is too many to handle. So in that respect, I might be up for getting pregnant again in that case, although what an awful situation to imagine, and you're right, I might feel completely different when actually faced with that situation!
Oh! I almost forgot about what I came here to say, which is that I'd tried the "pelvic rocks" exercise for pelvic pain, and it seems to have helped! I haven't had such bad pain when walking since those 3 days when I last wrote! The pelvic rocks are done by being on all fours and tilting your pelvis slowly up and down, kind of like the "cat/cow" yoga move if anybody's familiar with that. It's also a good position/exercise in getting the baby rotated/oriented right, which is another goal of mine because Lacey often kicks LOW and into a nerve, or lays sideways.
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Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:25 pm
Yay for getting sick. I was hoping to avoid it cause Sudafed just doesn't crack it for me. xd
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:09 pm
I'm 30 weeks and 4 days along now, and I noticed yesterday after taking a nap that my pelvic hurts worse than ever. I remember feeling a pop as I turned over in bed but thought nothing of it. When I went to stand from the bed however even just trying to sit up was painful. I thought it might have been from forgetting to place a pillow between my legs, so when I fell asleep last night I remembered to do so. When I woke up this morning however the pain was even worse than last night. It was painful just trying to turn over to get out of bed. I'm barely able to move without being in pain. My sister asked me if I was in labor because as I was trying to get about the house she was reminded of how I was walking when I was in labor with my first. I'm sure I'm not in labor however or else I would be in the hospital holding my little one right now. My point to all this is has anyone had pains this bad and if so what did you do to help relieve the pain?
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:57 pm
Yes, I've had pelvic pains that bad in this pregnancy, and they come and go over days/weeks, and it's so painful getting up, or walking, or turning over in bed, or climbing stairs, and one weekend it was so bad I was using hubby as a crutch to walk. It's gotten better since then, but it's no fun!
The pop could have done it. I know some chiropractors treat pregnant women for pelvic pain, but some are probably better at it than others, as the two chiropractors I've seen regularly are better at opposite things for me and each isn't as good as the other for different things. What did help me was doing the pelvic rocks, where you get on all fours and arch your back up like a cat and then back down, over and over about 40-50 times (sometimes I do them in 2 sets because it seems like a lot!)
This weekend I'm going to look for a pregnancy belt. I heard those can help too. Good luck, and I hope it doesn't last the rest of your pregnancy for you! I googled it and I can't remember the official term for it now, but it does happen in a small percentage of pregnant women, and can be so bad it requires crutches/wheelchair!
On a side note, I go in for my 3-hour glucose test in the morning, so I'm already officially fasting for it. My first screen was 180, and they like to see under 140. I was borderline (140 or 141) in my last pregnancy, and the 3-hour test for that pregnancy was normal, but this one's higher! We'll see!
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:34 pm
SPD.
I had it really bad at the end of my pregnancy with Ethan, starting around 33 or 34 weeks along. It would be so bad that my pelvis would lock up and I couldn't move. I could hear my pubic bones crunch and crack against each other and everytime I rolled over, I would be in so much pain I'd wake up. The only thing that was ever recommended to me was a maternity belt and as far as I know, they don't know what exactly causes it, let alone how to treat it.
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 2:55 pm
Yeah, I was thinking SPD for you Free. I've had pains, but not the popping or grinding thankfully. I do have to be very careful how I get up and move though, yeesh. I, personally, am extremely wary of chiropracty for children/pregnant woman, but if it works for you, worth a shot.
Mystic, good luck with the 3 hour. I was a big ole baby about not being able to eat breakfast for the one hour, I know the 3 has gotta be a bigger pain.
Looks like my weight gain is going to be on par with my other two.
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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 6:27 pm
The fasting until lunch wasn't too too bad this pregnancy or last, as the glucose drink seems to sustain me for quite a while, although I was a little lightheaded during the last hour, so the lab tech suggested I lay down, and that was a welcome rest after sitting so long.
I found out today I do have gestational diabetes, and I meet with a nutritionist on Thursday and will learn how to take my own blood sugar levels several times throughout the day. I'd already been reading up on diet changes and had been making some adjustments just in case, and I'm not too upset because I've gotten used to the idea after my first test screen was so high. There are some dangers and possible complications, but I'm trying to educate myself as much as possible.
I bought a maternity belt this weekend, and it comes with 3 different stretchy velcro-attaching pieces, and it's REALLY comfortable, and I must say it helped me walk around in 9 different stores on Saturday without a lot of pain! I don't think I'd have made it past 3 stores otherwise! It was more expensive than I anticipated ($38.99 at Motherhood Maternity, I believe), but to me, worth it.
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Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:53 pm
Where are all my fellow pregnant gaians? Too busy?
My blood sugar is still high, even with the right foods and exercise, so I started injecting with insulin yesterday, and we'll see how that does. So far it looks like I'll need to snack more to avoid low blood sugar between meals.
I started up on the Wii Fit again too for the days my family and I can't take an evening walk for my diabetes exercise. Of course it tells me I'm overweight for my height, and my balance is all over the place, but for some reason a lot of my scores are higher than they were before! I like to do the torso twists, single leg extensions, lunges (although it feels like I'm lunging 1000 pounds and I'm out of breath at the end!), step aerobics, and boxing. At least I can give the Wii Fit a goal of weight gain instead of loss!
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:13 pm
I'm still here, just taking a break from gaia really. SO much going on.
I was all worried because I was having a LOT of BHs earlier this week, turns out the boy turned headdown, so huzzah! I did get a bit of a lecture about taking it easy and stop being supermom, which is hard, I admit. So, the contractions have lessened and I'm trying not to stay on my feet so much.
I'm still trying to fathom my due date coming up. I am still dealing with some emotions of it all, but overall, things are going well. My BP and sugars are great, and I have my consult for the tubal at the end of may.
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 6:56 pm
Yeah time's going fast! It's already May!
I had a lot of braxton-hicks with all 3 of mine; more than I should, but that seems to be normal for me. I very frequently have at or over the limit per hour when they say to call, but it goes on for months like that for me, and almost always when I'm sitting down doing nothing. See? There goes another one!
Hubby finally found Amber's packed up preemie size clothing in the attic space where I knew they had to be, but he swears last time he looked, they weren't there! Yeah...
So I washed and folded them into Lacey's little drawers today, and now I'm much more confident because now we won't have to buy so many new clothes! I was hoping and wishing every day we could finally find them! And the second drawer has a bunch of newborn size clothes of Jade's which he found while looking for Amber's, so no matter what her size or growth rate, we should be set!
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